Post-Enlightenment: Can We Go Beyond Occidentalist Epistemologies and Geo-Politics in Queer Studies?
Presentation / Conference
Kulpa, R. (2022, December)
Post-Enlightenment: Can We Go Beyond Occidentalist Epistemologies and Geo-Politics in Queer Studies?. Presented at Go West! Conceptual Explorations of “The West” in History of Education, University of Münster, Germany
The invited lecture reflected on the contemporary queer studies and the geo-temporal ‘unsettlement’ of Central and Eastern Europe in the occidental (and occidentalist) imagina...
Dangerous Liaisons: Neoliberal Tropes of the ‘Normal’ and ‘Middle-Class Respectability’ in the Post-socialist LG(BT) Activism
Book Chapter
Kulpa, R. (2022)
Dangerous Liaisons: Neoliberal Tropes of the ‘Normal’ and ‘Middle-Class Respectability’ in the Post-socialist LG(BT) Activism. In M. Blidon, & S. D. Brunn (Eds.), Mapping LGBTQ Spaces and Places. A Changing World (279-291). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-03792-4_17
This chapter explores the emerging, post-1989 logics of neoliberalisation of gender and sexuality activism in Central-Eastern Europe (CEE). By looking at a case study from the...
Queer Politics of Post-Enlightenment
Presentation / Conference
Kulpa, R. (2021, December)
Queer Politics of Post-Enlightenment. Presented at Working transnationally beyond comparative hierarchies: Exploring relationalities, solidarities and changing conditions in transnational research and pedagogies, Lund University, Sweden
This invited presentation reflected on the contemporary queer studies and the geo-temporal ‘unsettlement’ of Central and Eastern Europe in the occidental (and occidentalist) i...
The Potential of Friendship: A Case for Social Resilience
Presentation / Conference
Kulpa, R., & Ludwin, K. (2021, April)
The Potential of Friendship: A Case for Social Resilience. Paper presented at 70th Annual Conference of the British Sociological Association, London, UK
The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic mark a crisis of neoliberal ideologies of entrepreneurial individualism underpinning global precarity globally, nationally, and at th...
“The Crown” - Princess Diana and the Cinderella Dream
Other
Kulpa, R. (2021)
“The Crown” - Princess Diana and the Cinderella Dream. [Magazine article]. Warsaw
A week after the premiere of the fourth season of "The Crown", the British media announced that viewership records were broken. Diana's story is the main theme in it. What is ...
Surveying Friendship. What the Quantitative Data Tell Us About Friendship among LGBT Communities
Presentation / Conference
Kulpa, R. (2018, October)
Surveying Friendship. What the Quantitative Data Tell Us About Friendship among LGBT Communities. Paper presented at Queering Friendship: Citizenship, Care and Choice (‘Intimate’ Project), University of Lisbon, Lisbon, PT
2018, Surveying Friendship. What the Quantitative Data Tell Us About Friendship among LGBT Communities. To: Queering Friendship: Citizenship, Care and Choice (‘Intimate’ Proje...
Decolonizing Queer Epistemologies: Section Introduction
Book Chapter
Kulpa, R., & Silva, J. M. (2016)
Decolonizing Queer Epistemologies: Section Introduction. In G. Brown, & K. Browne (Eds.), The Routledge Research Companion to Geographies of Sex and Sexualities (139-142). London: Routledge
Discordant lifestyle mobilities in East Asia: privilege and precarity of British retirement in Thailand
Journal Article
Botterill, K. (2016)
Discordant lifestyle mobilities in East Asia: privilege and precarity of British retirement in Thailand. Population, Space and Place, 23(5), e2011. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2011
This paper explores the lifestyle mobilities of British retirees in Thailand, drawing on empirical research conducted in 2012. Thailand is a host to a significant number of Br...
"We Don't See Things as They Are, We See Things as We Are": Questioning the "Outsider" in Polish Migration Research
Journal Article
Botterill, K. (2015)
"We Don't See Things as They Are, We See Things as We Are": Questioning the "Outsider" in Polish Migration Research. Forum: Qualitative Social Research / Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung, 16(2),
This article offers a reflexive account of conducting research on Polish migration to Scotland from the perspective of the "outsider." The contribution argues for a revision t...
Sexual politics and the Eurovision Song Contest
Other
Kulpa, R. (2014)
Sexual politics and the Eurovision Song Contest. https://eurovisionproject.wordpress.com/2014/04/28/sexual-politics-and-the-eurovision-song-contest/
In this post I would like to draw readers’ attention to the issue of how Eurovision is entangled with sexual politics in the new EUrope: how it sometimes is used as the marker...